Chinatown Snacks

  Khong Guan, 1308 -1310 Stockton near Broadway, is one of my favorite places to poke around and find the odd snack or two. Here we have two flavored peanuts from Thailand. On the left, the Coffee Flavour Coated Peanuts, which are basically nuts coated with a flour paste containing sugar, salt and coffee powder. On the right, Tom Yum Coated Peanuts, with a coating of wheat flour, glutinous rice flour, tom yum powder - soy sauce, chili, kaffir lime leaf and garlic - sugar, potato starch, palm oil, citric acid, salt and lemon grass. I prefer the tom yum personally. Nutritionally, they're about the same per 30gr serving: 160 calories (80 to 90% from fat); the tom yum has a bit more saturated fat, 5gr, probably from the palm oil; 130mg of sodium and 5-6gr of protein.
   One interesting thing, the front of the coffee nuts has English, Chinese and Thai wording, while the tom yum has English, Thai and German. Go figger.